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  • BERTRAND RUSSELL'S BEST
    BERTRAND RUSSELL'S BEST
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Bestis a collection of Russell’s wittiest and most pungent writings. First published in 1958, t...
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  • CLOCKWORK ANGEL
    CLOCKWORK ANGEL
    CASSANDRA CLARE
    London, 1878. 16-year-old Tessa Gray's priority should be finding her brother, not falling in love with two boys. She is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove fatal. Tessa will need all her strength to save her brother and stay alive as she learns about what really lurks on London's streets after dark. ...
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  • PLAYING THE FIELD
    PLAYING THE FIELD
    BECKY WARD
    Fun, sexy and full of heart, Playing the Field is perfect for fans of Icebreaker and The Cheat Sheet as well as shows like Welcome to Wrexham and Ted Lasso. TROPES: Grumpy/Sunshine, Forbidden Romance, Secret Dating, will-they-won't-they --------------------------- He might be a player, but she'll teach him some new rules... When football-mad Lily's local club relocates to a ...
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  • THIS TIME IT'S REAL
    THIS TIME IT'S REAL
    ANN LIANG
    Get Ready to fall in LOVE in this hilarious rom-com! When 16-year-old Eliza Lin's personal essay about meeting the love of her life goes viral, she gets everything she's ever wanted: the approval of her new classmates, a rare internship opportunity at her favourite publisher, and a devoted online following who think her relationship is #couplegoals. The only problem? Eliza made...
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  • RAISING STEAM
    RAISING STEAM
    TERRY PRATCHETT
    'The world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can . . . it's just a matter of thinking creatively.' Moist von Lipwig is a con man turned civil servant. As head of the Royal Bank and Post Office of Ankh-Morpork, he doesn't really want or need another job. But when the Patrician Lord Vetinari gives you a task, you do it or suffer the conseque...
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  • THREE WOMEN
    THREE WOMEN
    LISA TADDEO
    The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in h...
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  • LETTERS TO FELICE
    LETTERS TO FELICE
    FRANZ KAFKA
    Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but gradually disllusionment and the onset of illness drove them apart. These letters remain as a monument to the inner life of a cr...
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  • THE DARK FOREST
    THE DARK FOREST
    CIXIN LIU
    Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individu...
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  • CURSEBOUND
    CURSEBOUND
    SAARA EL-ARIFI
    THE SPELLBINDING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FAEBOUND RETURN TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF THE FAE... Betrayed by destiny. Cursed by love. Bound by hope. Yeeran and Lettle are no longer prisoners to the fae court, but now they're bound by the shackles of their hearts ... Yeeran was born for war but is unprepared for love. She has left her new lover, the Qu...
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  • IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES
    IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES
    KATHERINE RUNDELL
    'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo 'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder' - Cressida Cowell * BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER * BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD WINN...
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  • DOPPELGANGER
    DOPPELGANGER
    NAOMI KLEIN
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  • FRANK WHITTLE
    FRANK WHITTLE
    ANDREW NAHUM
    The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew...
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  • THE CHARM OFFENSIVE
    THE CHARM OFFENSIVE
    ALISON COCHRUN
    A MOST ANTICIPATED ROM-COM SELECTED BY * BUZZFEED * LGBTQ READS * BUSTLE * THE NERD DAILY * ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT * FROLIC MEDIA * AND MORE! A BEST BOOK PICK BY * HARPER'u200bS BAZAAR * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "The Charm Offensive will sweep you off your feet." --PopSugar u200bu200bu200bu200bIn this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy--reminiscent of Red, White & Royal...
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  • MAUREEN FRY AND THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH
    MAUREEN FRY AND THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH
    RACHEL JOYCE
    Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, ...
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  • FINALE
    FINALE
    STEPHANIE GARBER
    *This paperback edition features a gorgeous new cover design!* The heart-stopping conclusion to Stephanie Garber's magical and globally bestselling Caraval series, where Scarlett and Tella Dragna must fight for their happy endings . . . A LOVE WORTH FIGHTING FOR. A DREAM WORTH DYING FOR. AN ENDING WORTH WAITING FOR. It's been two months since the Fates were freed from a deck...
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  • POWDER AND PATCH
    POWDER AND PATCH
    GEORGETTE HEYER
    If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser'I could mainline Heyer's Regency romances until the end of time and still not get bored!' India Knight 'Utter, immersive escapism.' Sophie Kinsella __________ To win her hand, he must become what he despises ... In an eighteenth-century England of wit, womanising and powdere...
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  • THE VISIONARIES
    THE VISIONARIES
    WOLFRAM EILENBERGER
    'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday Times The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir reimagines the dance between consciousness and the world outside in a Rouen café. Ayn Rand labours in Hollywood...
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  • MY BROTHER, MY LAND
    MY BROTHER, MY LAND
    SAMI HERMEZ
    A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation. In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that follo...
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  • HELL'S ANGELS
    HELL'S ANGELS
    HUNTER S. THOMPSON
    Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Ange...
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  • THE LADY AND THE LITTLE FOX FUR
    THE LADY AND THE LITTLE FOX FUR
    VIOLETTE LEDUC
    'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for...
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  • IMMORTAL CONSEQUENCES
    IMMORTAL CONSEQUENCES
    I. V. MARIE
    SIX RIVALS. ONE VICTOR. ETERNITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING."A twisty and thrilling dark academia fantasy that will have you enthralled from the very first page." —Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in DrowningSix students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the only escape—and love can cross the ...
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  • THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    KEN FOLLETT
    The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.Revolution is in the air1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France'...
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  • SILVER ELITE
    SILVER ELITE
    DANI FRANCIS
    'This dystopia has BLOWN me away' @emilymiahreads 'One of my new FAVOURITE books' @abbysbooks 'In my TOP BOOKS of the year' @amymaybooks 'I'm absolutely obsessed!' ALI HAZELWOOD 'Thoroughly addictive - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' L.K. STEVEN __________________________________________ WELCOME TO SILVER BLOCK - DISCOVER THE OBSESSION THAT IS SILVER ELITE. **PRE-O...
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  • BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café?...
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  • MOON OVER SOHO
    MOON OVER SOHO
    BEN AARONOVITCH
    I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus ...
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  • A MOMENT OF WAR
    A MOMENT OF WAR
    LAURIE LEE
    In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; 'that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that id...
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  • AMERICANAH
    AMERICANAH
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her,...
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  • HER EVERY FEAR
    HER EVERY FEAR
    PETER SWANSON
    The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley 'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, Sunday Times bestselling author of I See You Following a brutal attack, Kate Priddy makes the unc...
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  • THRONE OF GLASS
    THRONE OF GLASS
    SARAH J. MAAS
    'One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade' TIMEEnter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend.In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. Celaena Sardothien has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieve...
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  • EVERYTHING COMES NEXT
    EVERYTHING COMES NEXT
    NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
    "Emotionally resonant and stirring."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting."--Horn Book Magazine This celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems; an introduction by be...
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    8,75 €